If you could read my mind
2003-04-03 14:19:36 ET

If you could read my mind, love,
What a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie,
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong,
With chains upon my feet.
You know that ghost is me.
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.

If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell.
Just like a paperback novel,
The kind the drugstores sell.
Then you reached the part where the heartaches come,
The hero would be me.
But heroes often fail,
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take!

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script.
Enter number two:
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me.
But for now, love, let's be real;
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong,
But the feeling's gone
And I just can't get it back.

If you could read my mind, love,
What a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie,
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong.
With chains upon my feet.
But stories always end,
And if you read between the lines,
You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack.
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong,
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back!

- Gordon Lightfoot

bah
2003-03-31 20:04:26 ET

I'm starting to think it's all in my head.
I sit down to write a story, and I can't find direction anywhere.

I could map out a story, where I want it to go...
but that just seems like filling in the blanks or connecting the dots.
I can never sit down, think up a character, put them in a place or situation, and organically create a story.
Then I start to think that it's the "I can't" mentality that's keeping me down.
Or more so, a lack or motivation to try to write something.


I've always been more interested in the sublties of life, though. That is why the stories that I do write are very specific, very descriptive. Almost too much so.
Similarly with film, though, I've never come up with a solid script myself. I had a few crazy ones back when we had to write for screen-writing class, but those were hardly stories, and more like ramblings.
I could tell people true stories about what happened to me, and those always seem interesting till I put them on the page.

I'm more of a visual film maker. if given a topic, I could come up with images that tell the story, and move it along.
or simply create an image that in itself tells a story.
vinettes and character studies - that's my forte.

the other part is time.

I have the time to put into writing, but after sitting for an hour and only coming up with a paragraph or two because my mind can't think of the next step,
it's hard to keep telling myself that that's what I have to do, you know?
It's hard to keep moving
at the end of the road.
there are choices upon choices
about which way to go.
the decision is within you
and the time to choose is now.
It's hard to make the call
when you barely know how.

Why haven't you been writing??
2003-03-30 13:34:47 ET

hey, relax buddy!
you need a rest, guy!
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2003-03-22 20:52:57 ET

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Salvation
2003-03-20 23:14:33 ET

If life's so good, why does it hurt so bad?
and it takes all the strength we thought we had
If life's so good, why does it hurt so bad?
and it takes all the strenght we thought we had

and I say strugglin, whoa I say strugglin
and will there ever come a time
when a man can say his spirit's free?
and I say hustlin' who I say hustlin
and will there ever come a time
a man can say his spirit's free?

If life's so good, why does it hurt so bad?
and it takes all the strength we thought we had
If life's so good, why does it hurt so bad?
and it takes all the strenght we thought we had

and every night and day,
we like to give thanks and praise
for what you did and what you gave.

If life's so good, why does it hurt so bad?

- Obi Fernandez

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